"Mathematics is not a deductive science – that’s a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don’t..."

“Mathematics is not a deductive science – that’s a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don’t just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.”

- Paul Halmos (via mathblab) September 02, 2018 at 07:36PM